Merge pull request #265 from jsickcodes/jsickcodes-cycle3-proposal

Phase 3 Funding: Learn Astropy Full Stack Development (Jonathan Sick)

Author: aaryapatil

finance/proposal-calls/cycle3/Sick-Learn-Astropy.md

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+### Title
+
+Learn Astropy Full Stack Developer
+
+### Project Team
+
+- Jonathan Sick, of the [J.Sick Codes](https://www.jsick.codes) astronomy DevOps
+  software studio, and Astropy team member in the Learn Astropy
+  infrastructure role.
+- The [Learn Team](https://www.astropy.org/team.html) provides collaborative
+  guidance and oversight for this project, but is not funded in this proposal.
+  Kelle Cruz's leadership role is covered in
+  [285](https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/pull/285).
+
+### Project Description
+
+This is a proposal to fund the maintenance and development of new capabilities
+for the [Learn Astropy](https://learn.astropy.org) website and the related
+infrastructure that publishes and indexes content. Learn Astropy’s mission is to
+help students and astronomers learn how to effectively use Python for their
+research by presenting tutorials and other content that covers the core Astropy
+package, affiliated packages, and other related topics in astronomy community.
+This proposal furthers that goal with two themes: incorporating new content
+types and sources into Learn Astropy, and improving the overall user experience
+of the Learn Astropy website.
+
+### Project / Work
+
+This funding provides a capacity to build out new Learn Astropy features. These
+are features that the Learn Astropy team has identified, in rough priority:
+
+- Enable “third parties” to submit their independently-published content into
+  the Learn Astropy index (e.g., tutorials published by STScI and other
+  observatories and archives).
+- Enable full-text search of Astropy core package and affiliated package
+  documentation.
+- Enable search and discovery of Astropy affiliated packages.
+- Enable citation of Learn Astropy’s resources through DOIs and NASA ADS
+  listing, including tooling and workflows for tutorial contributors.
+- Standardized hierarchical content tagging the Unified Astronomy thesaurus and
+  Python API symbols.
+- Website UX improvements and features, from search UI improvements,
+  notifications for new/updated content, contributor documentation.
+- Coordinating with infrastructure service providers, specifically
+  [Algolia](https://www.algolia.com), and establishing
+  open source plans or applying for funding as needed.
+- Communications and collaboration with the Learn Astropy team, including
+  telecons and GitHub issues/pull requests.
+
+### Approximate Budget
+
+Budget is for hourly labor at a suggested rate of US$120/hour. Given an expected
+commitment of 16 hours a month, the expected estimated total is US$24,000.
+
+The minimal budget request is US$11,000. At this level, which would be
+equivalent to about 8 hours of development a month, some lower-priority projects
+could be de-scoped to focus on a single high priority project, such indexing
+third-party sources.